Release Notes v1.5.0

Remote Monitoring Release Notes | Version 1.5.0

Refactoring

• Introduced strongly typed DeviceModel, Command & Parameter types
• Updated all internal repositories, services and controllers to accept and use strongly typed models.
• Updated Simulator.WebJob to use strongly typed models for generating simulated devices.
• Updated EventProcessorHost to use strongly typed models.
• Removed old REST implementation of DocumentDB client in favor of client provided by DocumentDB SDK
• Unified unit test project.
• Expanded unit test coverage for Web, EventProcessorHost and Infrastructure.
• General code cleanup.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue #342 .
• Fixed issue #195 .
• Fixed inconsistencies of storage naming support between deployment script and azureiotsuite.com.
• Fixed issue where simulated device would continue to send telemetry when device is disabled.

Remote Monitoring v1.4.1

Remote Monitoring Release Notes | Version 1.4.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug to set default language to English instead of Czech if not detected by browser
• Fixed bug in deployment if there was space in path
• Updated Storage and Iothub RP versions in templates to current version
• Added Tag to storage now that new version supports it

Remote Monitoring v1.4.0

Remote Monitoring Release Notes | Version 1.4.0

Breaking Change

• Azure Storage API has changed in the latest version. This release supports that change and now requires Azure Powershell SDK 1.4.0 or later

Remote Monitoring v1.3.0

Remote Monitoring Release Notes | Version 1.3.0

New Features

• Support Multiple Azure Environments (AzureGermanyCloud and AzureCloud)
• Added additional Regions where you can deploy your solution (Germany Central, Germany Northeast, Japan East, Japan West, Australia East, Australia Southeast)

Remote Monitoring Solution Portal Improvements

• Added Globalization support for selected language in solution portal
• Added Localized string support in solution portal:
• Czech (Čeština)
• German (Deutsch)
• English
• Spanish (Español)
• French (Français)
• Hungarian (Magyar)
• Italian (Italiano)
• Japanese (日本語)
• Dutch (Nederlands)
• Polish (Polski)
• Portugese (Português)
• Russian (ру́сский)
• Swedish (svenska)
• Turkish (Türkçe)
• Chinese simplified (中文(简体))
• Chinese traditional (中文(簡體))
• Added support to specify Bing Map Api key (manually put key in [solutionname].config.user MapApiQueryKey setting) for shared map key, local deployments, or for Germany datacenter which does not have Bing Maps available (see documentation on how-to here)

Refactoring

• Update dependency libraries to latest versions
• Removed Dependency on Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Diagnostics and Microsoft.WindowsAzure.ServiceRuntime, which means we now do not have a hard dependency on Azure SDK
• Moved AAD auth model from WSFederation to OpenIDConnect

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bugs in Powershell for users with multiple accounts and multiple subscriptions
• Fixed bug with AAD Applications created via commandline deployments that were missing permissions for non-AAD admins

Remote Monitoring v1.2.0

Remote Monitoring Release Notes | Version 1.2.0

Breaking Changes

• Upgraded powershell support to 1.0.3

New Features

• Added 3 more regions: West Europe, West US, Southeast Asia
• Added version check for powershell compatibility
• Added ability to select option number instead of typing guids

Bug Fixes/Minor Changes

• Added Version.txt to track solution version
• Set default web app to premium
• Back ported changes from Predictive Maintenance deployment and standardized between them
• Fixed small spelling mistakes

Remote Monitoring v1.1.0

Remote Monitoring Release Notes | Version 1.1.0

New Features

• Cellular Connectivity Registration 
    ○ API Registration 
    ○ Device to SIM Association for new or existing devices
    ○ SIM details for devices with a SIM association
    ○ Ability to remove a device to SIM association 

Remote Monitoring Solution Portal Improvements

• Added Advanced Tab 
• Added views for Cellular Connectivity: API Registration and Device Association
• Added UI elements to attach SIM ICCID when creating a new device 
• Added Cellular Connectivity view for devices with SIM association in Device Details pane
• Added link to remove a device to SIM association

Refactoring

• DocDB REST util (merged #79)
• Use LastOutputEventTime from Azure Stream Analytics instead of a manually set custom time

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where ExecuteLogicAppAsync was unreachable (Fixes Issue #82) 
• Fixed bug to now take latest version of any imported library (Fixes Issue #95) 
• Azure services are now tagged with IoTSuiteType

Remote Monitoring v1.0.0

Remote Monitoring Release Notes | Version 1.0.0

Deployment improvements

• Provision all local and cloud deployment resources in their own resource group
• Added support for uploading zip packages to storage for deployment and generated connection string for zip packages with symmetric key
• Unique name generation based on suite name for resources
• Azure ARM-based template deployments for local and cloud for all resources
• Auto-provisioning of Azure Active Directory application and assignment of user to admin role
• Auto-start of stream analytics jobs upon provisioning
• Use IoT Hub instead of Event Hub for direct input to Azure Stream Analytics jobs
• Respect Sku's of resources for existing deployments

Runtime improvements

• Separate web jobs from the web site for independent scalability
• Update simulators to run in single instance in web job and event host processors run in n instances

Remote Monitoring Solution Portal improvements

• Added ability to delete a pending device
• Added ability to delete a rule
• Added visual status indications to rules grid
• Added Apple Mac-specific copy text message
• Fix a bug where mixed case event hub name would break actions flow
• Refactored query for Stream Analytics rules job to fix some bugs and simplify logic
• Color-code devices on dashboard map based on how recently they have had an alert
• Improve display of DeviceID on dashboard map when clicked
• Clicking a device on the dashboard map displays the telemetry data and the summary data for that device
• Selecting a device on the dashboard highlights alarm rows for that device in the alarm history
• Globalization bug fixes and improvements, including adding a pseudo-localized tt resource for testing
• Add FxCop rules for Globalization and minimum rules to help prevent globalization regressions
• Font size consistency improvements
• Hide “Previous” and “Next” paging buttons on device grid and rules grid when only one page of data exists
• Stream Analytics reference data reliability improvements
• Fixed some minor visual and labelling issues
• Add logic to try to prevent race conditions and unexpected behavior during one-time data initialization in the WebJob
• Fixed a minor bug where concurrent edits on rules were not handled well
• Improved error handling and reporting in REST API
• Fix possible issue where caching around device enable/disable may have caused issues
• Fix a bug with multiple collections in the same DocumentDB
• Clarify local and UTC dates and times in user interface
• Clarify lack of localization and local timezone support for device properties
• Fix a bug on the dashboard where the static map image broke the alert history grid
• Updated code so that OAuth could be more easily used with the REST API
• Fix a bug where datetimeoffset command parameters were not formatted correctly
• Fix a bug where the simulator would return success for unknown commands
• Fix a bug where upgrading a solution would cause the alerts on the dashboard to fail due to a data format change in the blob storage
• Fix a bug where the map always included the Seattle area, regardless of device location
• Fix a bug with multiple collections in the same DocumentDB
• Fix a bug that allowed resending commands to disabled devices and devices that no longer support the command
• Fix some visual issues with the navigation bar images, especially in Edge browser
• Fix a bug where the DocumentDB would sometimes return an HTTP 401 error, especially during debugging, due to timestamp mismatch issues
• Fix a bug where some or all simulated devices would sometimes send identical telemetry data (due to issues around the random number generator’s seed)
• General code cleanup
• Refactor the styles using BEM (Block Element Modifier) convention

Known Issues

• IoTHub skus are not currently respected (always switches to default of template). This will be fixed when we switch to Azure Powershell 1.0.